Littleton Waller TAZEWELL

(1774-1860)

Senate Years of Service:

1824-1825; 1825-1832

Party:

Jackson Republican;
Jacksonian

TAZEWELL, Littleton
Waller, (son of Henry Tazewell), a Representative and a
Senator from Virginia; born in Williamsburg, Va., December 17,
1774; privately tutored; graduated from the College of William and
Mary at Williamsburg in 1791; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1796 and commenced practice in James City County; member, State
house of delegates 1798-1800; elected to the Sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Marshall and served
from November 26, 1800, to March 3, 1801; moved to Norfolk, Va., in
1802; member, General Assembly 1804-1806; member, Virginia House of
Delegates 1816-1817; one of the commissioners of claims under the
treaty with Spain ceding Florida in 1821; elected in 1824 to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
John Taylor; reelected in 1829, and served from December 7, 1824,
to July 16, 1832, when he resigned; served as President pro tempore
of the Senate during the Twenty-second Congress; chairman,
Committee on Foreign Relations (Twentieth through Twenty-second
Congresses); delegate to the State convention in 1829; Governor of
Virginia from 1834 until his resignation in 1836; retired from
public life; died in Norfolk, Va., May 6, 1860; interment on his
estate on the Eastern Shore of Virginia; reinterment in 1866 in
Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.